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Eiri ,

I can see why they would want that. They may consider email to be inherently less safe than their platform, so they don’t send any sensitive information there.

Canada’s government stuff also generally works that way, except without any links.

I’m not sure how legit their concerns are, but it’s a thing.

Canada Revenue Agency notice

Eiri ,

Huh. So I can blame the British for influencing Canada to be fucked up.

Frickin’ temperatures. Fahrenheit for ovens and pools and Celsius for the rest. Why.

Eiri , (edited )

As a Canadian, yes, yes it is.

I’ve never really understood it. My Mom asks me to check her pool’s temperature. “24 degrees”

And she’s confused! “I have no idea what that means! Tell me in normal pool temperature”

But if I told her the outside temperature in Fahrenheit she’d be utterly confused, as would I. Only thing I know about Fahrenheit is that 30 is cold and 100 is very hot.

The pool thing is completely crazy.

I can understand the oven thing though. It’s so hot that it might as well have nothing to do with other everyday temperatures. So if you get ovens and recipes from the United States, I can see why it wouldn’t really be a problem. It’s treated as basically just a power level.

Still I wish we all switched to Celsius. It just feels useful to me to know how far you are from the boiling point of water, for instance.

Want more craziness?

  • Construction materials, imperial.
  • People’s weights, pounds, although most people understand kilos, they’ll just internally think you’re being a hipster if you make them convert in their head.
  • People’s heights, generally feet. They’re hard to convert back and forth to cm, so people are often confused when I use cm. Though on government ID it’s cm.
  • Short distances? Mostly imperial, especially with older people, but sometimes metric.
  • Long distances? Hours by car. If you press it, people will use kilometers, but hours are absolutely the casual unit of distance.
  • Weight of things? Usually metric, but a pound of butter is a pound of butter.
  • Volumes? Metric, or metric-ified imperial units, like metric cups (250 ml), tablespoons (15 ml) and teaspoons (5 ml). Ounces only used for alcoholic drinks AFAIK. No one I know understands wtf a “15 ounce drink” means, even though restaurant chains sometimes use the measurement on their menus.
  • In Quebec in particular, pint and gallon have been completely denatured from volume units to container types. A pint is a small container, usually a carton, containing 1 or 2 liters. Usually only used for milk. Can also be a 1-litre plastic bag of milk. (Used to be a popular Canadian staple; now cartons are the more popular thing.) A gallon is a jug or jerrycan. People are aware they’re supposed to be volume units but you rarely see them used as such.
Eiri ,

I’m all for blaming the US (it’s a fun pastime) but can you expand on that transition process? Sounds interesting.

Eiri ,

I imagine by the time you see the tiny drone and are able to aim at it, it’s likely too late. And what if it’s a kamikaze drone and the explosion is bigger than anticipated?

Telling your soldiers to shoot at that sounds riskier than “take cover as soon as you think there’s a drone”.

Anyway my understanding is that so far drones are more useful for destroying stuff than killing people.

A much simpler countermeasure to armed drones is a net.

As for surveillance drones… I’m not sure militarily speaking they care all that much. The enemy already could be watching them with satellites, high altitude drones or balloons that would be nearly impossible to detect, or plain old binoculars, anyway.

Unless it’s a covert operation, in which case the enemy launching a drone to find you is already very bad.

Eiri ,

Huh. I can see drones, action cameras and spy cameras being able to store lots of super high quality footage with this. Like, so much footage it lasts longer than the battery.

It’s niche, but I can’t see the use case.

Eiri ,

What a surprise!

Maybe I’m too jaded but I couldn’t have imagined a different future for blockchain tech. It’s just so… Profoundly meaningless and inefficient.

Nova Launcher, savior of cruft-filled Android phones, is on life support (arstechnica.com)

Back in July 2022, when mobile app metrics firm Branch acquired the popular and well-regarded Nova Launcher for Android, the app’s site put up one of those self-directed FAQ posts about it. Under the question heading “What does Branch want with Nova?,” Nova founder and creator Kevin Barry started his response with, “Not...

Eiri ,

It sucks, but it could’ve been worse. They could just have killed it.

Nova being a mature product, maybe it’ll be okay third way. Hopefully.

Eiri ,

All right, someone’s gotta play along.

What’s sugma?

Eiri ,

I really hope they fix this. When support for my old OnePlus 6 stopped, I was going to install a custom ROM until I realized bank apps, and most security-centered apps, wouldn’t work. So I ran with an out-if-date, possibly vulnerable OS for a year until (probably) corrosion from liquid exposure finally did the phone in.

Really bad thing to incentivize.

Eiri ,

Wtf, plans locking down device features. That’s mindblowing.

Eiri ,

How… How are they gonna pay for bandwidth if there aren’t any ads?

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